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Roger posted an update in the group Mission News 9 years, 6 months ago
Housing Watch » MissionLocalIn Development As stated in a seven point housing plan and reiterated in the upcoming Proposition K, Mayor Ed Lee’s housing goal for San Francisco include adding (or rehabilitating) 30,000 new units by 2020. Of those, 33 percent, or 10,000, are supposed to be affordable to low and moderate-income households. To reach these goals, the city would need to build roughly 5,000 units of new affordable housing in the next six years—in addition to rehabilitating its stock of 4,575 units of public housing. So far, San Francisco isn’t doing a great job of meeting its affordable housing targets, according to Civil Grand Jury Report that came out this summer. How’s the affordable housing outlook in the Mission? On a slow burn. Since 2008, the Mission’s gotten 565 units of new housing, according to data compiled from the Planning Department. Only 95, or 17 percent, were below market rate ones. The Mission could have as many as 1,700 new units built by …